Barry Graham: 19 books

You might as well take your socks off...because they'll be knocked off anyway by the writing of Dogo Barry Graham. Little diamonds of Zen blasted into your mushy brain to pry your eyelids open." —Tricycle: The Buddhist Review No, this book doesn't advocate suicide — it teaches something...

With a voice that maintains a gritty strength balanced with poetic vision, Barry Graham pushes all his chips to the center of the table in this collection of from the gut short stories that are as sentimental as they are cynical. Set in America’s underbelly-from dead-end small towns with their futile...

This unclassifiable hybrid of harsh autobiography and hard reporting opens with an alienated Barry Graham arriving in Phoenix, Arizona, from his native Scotland in 1995. Plunging into chaotic relationships and empty sexual encounters, he also witnesses two executions and investigates Joe Arpaio, the...

"Tender, sublimely economical"--Spin "Unique and intelligent"—Maximumrocknroll "Before explores memories, both self-created and real, of a woman the narrator knew for a short time, who later died unexpectedly. He seeks to find her in visions, lost words, lonely...

Barry Graham's horror fiction has earned him comparisons with Bram Stoker, M.R. James and Stephen King, while his neo-noir fiction has been compared to that of James M. Cain, Richard Stark, David Goodis, Quentin Tarantino and Jim Thompson. In this collection of essays examining what Graham...

Barry Graham's terse, resonant poems of urban Zen have been internationally published in anthologies and magazines, and broadcast on BBC radio. This, however, is the first book-length collection of his poetry. This volume brings together his best poems of two decades, ranging from haiku and tanka to love poems and murder ballads.

"Bram Stoker... M.R. James... Stephen King... Now there is Barry Graham." —Scottish Field "I'm there when it gets dark to kill you if I can..." The Bogey Man's sinister chant used to scare the wits out of Gary Scott when he was a five-year-old, growing up in the...

NOMINATED FOR THE SPINETINGLER AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL OF 2011 They call him The Kid. He's a killer, a dark legend of the Southwest's urban badlands, "a child who terrifies adults." They speak of him in whispers in dive bars near closing time. Some claim to have met him. Others say he...

AN AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR "Haunting and evocative, The Book of Man resonates with the redemptive power art has over life"—Irvine Welsh "Mesmerising"—Dennis Cooper "Breathtaking"—Lynne Tillman Set in the Scottish...

A MYSTERY PEOPLE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Laura Ponto wouldn't mind watching Frank del Rio being strapped to the executioner's gurney, even if her job is to find mitigating evidence in death penalty cases. Frank's not a client, but a long time ago he did unspeakable things to children— and Laura...

Scumbo is a Scottish singer and songwriter who's half-rock star and half-monk. With too much sex, too little love and no money, this punk troubadour searches for a way to live life on his own terms. In addition to the title novella, this book contains eight dark, funny and compassionate stories...

"Immensely entertaining... a helluva plot, and a wonderful twist." --Benjamin Whitmer, author of Pike and Cry Father Andy Saunders knows how to survive. He survived all alone in Los Angeles as a teenager, and he survived in foreign combat zones as a soldier. He survived homelessness...

"A master." —The Times (London) In this searing collection of stories, people try in various ways to escape the violence and depravity of urban Scotland. A brutalised child rescues his sister in the only way he can imagine. An alienated, drug-addicted boxer fights to live...

A dark Latino legend of the Southwest's urban badlands, the kid is spoken of in whispers in dive bars near closing time. Some claim to have met him, and others say he doesn't exist-a phantom blamed for every unsolved act of violence, a ghost who haunts every blood-splattered crime scene. In reality,...